mosaic

• adj.モザイク；寄せ木細工
• n. モザイク; インレイ; 寄木細工

ラテン語のmusaicum、知恵の女神ミューズに捧げられた作品、語源はミューズ、美術館と同じ。 古代のモザイク作品で、後に映画用語として使われる。

mosaic

mosaic: [16] Mosaic work is etymologically work ‘of the muses’. The word comes ultimately from Greek mouseion, which originally meant literally ‘place of the muses’, and has also given English museum. Somehow in medieval Latin it became altered to mūsaicus or mōsaicus, and passed via early modern Italian mosaico and French mosa?que into English as mosaic. It has no etymological connection, incidentally, with Mosaic ‘of Moses’ [17].
=> muse, museum

mosaic (n.)

c. 1400, from Old French mosaicq "mosaic work," from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum "mosaic work, work of the Muses," noun use of neuter of musaicus "of the Muses," from Latin Musa (see muse). Medieval mosaics were often dedicated to the Muses. The word formed in Medieval Latin as though from Greek, but the (late) Greek word for "mosaic work" was mouseion (Klein says this sense was borrowed from Latin). Figurative use is from 1640s. As an adjective in English from 1580s. Related: Mosaicist.

Mosaic (adj.)

"pertaining to Moses," 1660s (earlier Mosaical, 1560s), from Modern Latin Mosaicus, from Moses.

1. a design in mosaic

モザイクパターン

2.The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.

今朝の空は青白い画面だった。

3.I was admiring the exquisite workmanship in the mosaic .

モザイク画の精緻な仕上げを楽しんでいました。

4.Archaeologists have worked for years to piece together the huge mosaic .

考古学者の長年にわたるコラージュという巨大なモザイク。

5.Major works of painting，sculpture， mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.

重要な絵画、彫刻、モザイク画、建築作品はベニスの元で綿密に検査された。